Doordarshan Starts Free TV Services for Mobile Phones

Aiming to attract the growing number of smartphone users, Public Broadcaster Doordarshan has started beaming free TV services to mobile phones in 16 cities, including the four metros.

In a statement in New Delhi, the broadcaster said Digital Terrestrial Television services of Doordarshan have started operation from February 25,2016 in 16 cities, thereby providing mobile TV to the users.

The 16 cities are Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Guwahati, Patna, Ranchi, Cuttack, Lucknow, Jalandhar, Raipur, Indore, Aurangabad, Bhopal, Bangalore and Ahmedabad.

Mobile TV can be received in and around these cities using DVB-T2 dongles in OTG enabled smartphones and tablets, Wi-Fi dongles for moving vehicles, besides the TV sets having built-in DVB-T2 tuner which are called Integrated Digital TV (iDTV)

While iDTV are available in Sony,LG,Panasonia and Samsung etc, the dongles are also available on online shopping sites like Flipkart,eBay,Snapdeal etc, the statement added.

Currently DD National, DD News, DD Bharati, DD Sports, DD Regional/DD Kisan are being relayed. 

Only one-time investment of dongle will be required by viewers and there will be no extra expenditure unlike streaming with Internet.